Did Maeglin had a chance? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

06-09-2002, 02:14 PM

"Choice, not chance, determines fate"

Maeglin was not a true immigrant in the sense that he went to be with his family...his mother's kin. They were elven like he, and spoke the same language, and had many of the same customs. The change was closer to country cousin moving to the city.
And speaking as an immigrant myself...after a while you settle in and adapt. The language and customs become your own. There is somewhat of a dual nature to oneself, not comepletely like the "natives" because for at least a part of your life, you lack common experience (i.e. what it was like for you as a child in another country would not be what it was like to be a child in your new home so far as circumstances were different).
So, at least for me, it still comes to a matter of choice and of personal disposition (self-centered vs. selfless)

06-09-2002, 02:14 PM	#13
eloin Guest Posts: n/a	"Choice, not chance, determines fate" Maeglin was not a true immigrant in the sense that he went to be with his family...his mother's kin. They were elven like he, and spoke the same language, and had many of the same customs. The change was closer to country cousin moving to the city. And speaking as an immigrant myself...after a while you settle in and adapt. The language and customs become your own. There is somewhat of a dual nature to oneself, not comepletely like the "natives" because for at least a part of your life, you lack common experience (i.e. what it was like for you as a child in another country would not be what it was like to be a child in your new home so far as circumstances were different). So, at least for me, it still comes to a matter of choice and of personal disposition (self-centered vs. selfless)